Begovich Gallery
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW THROUGH MAY 16, 2026
Soo Kim: (Charlie sings in the quietest voice)
October 4, 2025 – May 16, 2026
Public Reception: October 4, 2025, 1:00-4:00 PM
Carol Caroompas:
Mystical Unions
October 4, 2025 – May 2, 2026
Public Reception: October 4, 2025, 1:00-4:00 PM
COTA GALLERIES ARTIST LECTURE SERIES
Tom Knechtel
- Artist Lecture
Thursday, March 19, 10:00 AM
Location: VA- Bldg. H - 2nd Floor
Presented in partnership with Foundations and Teaching (Art Education)
Tom Knechtel was born in Palo Alto, California. In 2002, he had a 25-year retrospective entitled "On Wanting to Grow Horns," which opened at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery in North Carolina before traveling to the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, the Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. He has had other solo exhibitions at Grant Selwyn Fine Art, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, PPOW Gallery in New York, and Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles. Knechtel has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including The Drawing Center, New York; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut; Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collections of The Berardo Collection, Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Orange County Museum of Art, and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Soo Kim
- Artist Lecture
Thursday, April 9, 2:00 PM
Location: VA-Bldg. G
Presented in partnership with Creative Photography and Experimental Media
Join us for an artist lecture with Soo Kim whose work bridges photography, video, and installation. Kim will discuss the evolution of her practice, offering insight into her process and conceptual approach, followed by a walkthrough of her current exhibition (Charlie sings in the quietest voice) for a closer look at the work on view.
IMAGE: TOM KNECHTEL,
Salute
(detail), 2025, ink, pastel, and graphite on papers, 24 3/8 x 29 inches
IN CONVERSATION
IN CONVERSATION: Soo Kim and John Rubeli
Thursday, April 16, 2–3:00 PM
Location: VA- Bldg. H - Knauss Grand Atrium
Presented in partnership with Art History / Art World (ART 180)
IN CONVERSATION is a live series that connects image makers, scholars, and the community for bold, engaging exchanges on art, culture, and the ideas shaping our present moment. This season features artist Soo Kim alongside arts advocate and collector John Rubeli offering insights that explores creative practice and process. Presented by the College of the Arts Galleries with support from the Art Alliance, CSUF’s Instructional Related Activities Grant, the College of the Arts, and the Department of Visual Arts.
ABOUT SOO KIM
Soo Kim is a photo-based artist whose work has been exhibited at institutions including the Getty Center, the Gwangju Biennale, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the Seoul Museum of Art. Her work is held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Broad Foundation, LACMA, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, among others. She received her MFA from CalArts and currently serves as Professor and Program Director of Photography at Otis College of Art and Design, where she also leads the Critic-in-Residence program.
ABOUT JOHN RUBELI
For the past three decades, John Rubeli has been a collector of works by emerging artists and has supported them by serving on the boards of many of Los Angeles’s museums and non-profits, including the Hammer Museum, LAXART (now The Brick), REDCAT and LAND. He has been a patron of numerous exhibitions at those institutions as well as at MOCA, LACMA, SFMOMA and the Whitney. John is a longtime music executive and was one of the original organizers of the Lollapalooza Festival. He was Vice President of A&R at Atlantic Records, co-founder of Chop Shop Records and currently has his own independent label Grey Market Records.
IMAGE: Photo of Soo Kim courtesy of Metro Art (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority).
MARILYN AND CLINE DUFF GALLERY
JONATHAN HERNANDEZ
(Drawing & Painting, BFA)
Looking Forward to Tomorrow
Public Reception
| March 18 from 4–6 PM
Exhibitions on view March 17–21
LEO FREEDMAN FOUNDATION STUDIO
AND MFA ART Gallery
COLTON ALLEN
(Sculpture, BFA)
Worlds of Wonder
Public Reception
| March 18 from 4–6 PM
Exhibitions on view March 17–21
STAN MARK RYAN '75 Gallery
DANIELA NAVARRO
(Creative Photography & Experimental Media, BFA)
Through the Lens of Care
Public Reception
| March 18 from 4–6 PM
Exhibitions on view March 17–21
